Finally got our first significant snow showing of the year! And sure, while there wasn’t enough to get any decent accumulation beyond an inch or two, it was plenty to cause cars to squeal for traction on the moderate hill outside the window this late afternoon into early evening. (I have to admit, it made [...]
This past weekend felt like our final taste of warm, autumn weather for the season. Sunny and temperatures in the upper 50s to lower 60s. All the better reason to start getting some more plants indoors. Luckily for us, we made it to Mahoney’s in Brighton the previous weekend and got what we needed to put [...]
Ok, maybe it’s appropriate that I’m giving the mint.com online budgeting program a shot at this moment in time. Right after putting in all those rhapsodic reviews of the McRib sandwich at McDonalds. Mint.com, if you don’t know, is the increasingly popular (and free) budget program that aggregates all your financial information in one place, [...]
Pretty amazing how many resources there are on the web to help you to do those simple home projects. One that’s been on the to-do list? Stretching a canvas of a Thailand street scene that I bought last summer. Less than one hour to watch this helpful video, get the stretcher bars lined up and [...]
There are so many good things about the waning days of summer and the summer break from school. Number one? You are still AT home at a little before nine in the morning. Others? Sound of coffee in the percolator brewing, muffled electric guitar playing from the neighbors downstairs (good in that it’s muffled… heh) [...]
I don’t know how others feel about it, but I get this particular impulse during the beginning days of summer, usually a day or two after the final responsibilities of the academic year are over. It’s the feeling to get a jump on those home projects that have been in various stages of incompletion for [...]
[Read part 2 of Elfa Closet Installation] So with the room prepped up, it was finally time to get to the actual installation. Funny how that goes– the majority of time going into getting everything ready, and then, almost a feeling of relief at being able to fall into the central project itself. Small stages [...]
Bonus craftmanship. Okay, so maybe that’s a little exaggerated. I’m just getting my feet wet with this home project stuff. But how fun to re-purpose some of the old closet material and figure out a way to design out the inlaid cut-out shelving/entertainment space in the living room? I had been meaning to get to [...]
[Read part 1 of Elfa Closet Installation] It’s one of those processes that are deeper than you expect, perhaps. How satisfying to go through that first phase of tearing down. But I guess after hauling down surprisingly heavy particle board pieces down a few flights of stairs for an hour and a half? You figure, [...]
From Wedding to Moving In
How about that for a great sequence of events? There’s something I really like about maintaining that tradition–getting married and then moving in together. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while. It feels like the right next step towards a steady integration of two lives. Why rush that, right? It’s the same sentiment [...]